Course Catalog - 2015-2016

     

FREN 566 - THE NARRATIVES & THE OTHER ART

Long Title: THE NARRATIVES AND THE OTHER ARTS
Department: *Classical & European Studies*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The seminar will focus on the aesthetic and ideological interplay between literature and the other arts. Figures and topics will include: neoclassical poetry and painting; Segalen, and Gauguin's Tahiti; Baudelaire's art criticism; Delacroix, Chasseriau, Fromentin, Djebar, and French Orientalism; Cocteau, or the poet as film-maker, Simon and the Baroque; Robbe-Grillet, Duras, and the cinema; Ben Jelloun and Giacometti.